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...finally satisfied that Preston Tucker was telling the truth about his financing. So last week it withdrew its stop order and allowed Tucker to float $20 million worth of stock to finance the production of his rear-engined automobiles (TIME, June 23). The Commission had no choice; it cannot bar anyone from selling the stock as long as the truth is told about the issue...
...Model Governor" because he suppressed the opium traffic) had enough forces to defend his dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...
...military operations we pursued purely military objectives. . . . And when we overran our estimated and agreed objectives we withdrew to previously agreed zonal boundaries. These were acts, not words, based upon . . . mutual confidence and loyalty...
...Humpty Dumpty told Alice, it was simply a question of who was master. After weeks of secret palaver in London, the Compagnie FranÇaise des Petroles withdrew its objections to the $200 million deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. to go into Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). But Standard's announcement of settlement was tinged with annoyance: before the deal could be closed, it had to be approved by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. And last week, Gulbenkian wasn't having...
Hungary, occupied by the Red Army, lies beyond direct reach of U.S. policy. So the Russians decided to consolidate their power before the Red Army withdrew. France and Italy, on the other hand, lie in a world where U.S. economic and political pressure cannot yet be shut off by the Communists. U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall promptly underlined the lesson; he 1) canceled the unused half of a $30,000,000 U.S. credit to Hungary; 2) wished "every success" to Italy's new Red-less Government...